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Contents
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| Week 1: |
The place and importance of Physical Geodesy in Geomatic Engineering. Literature suggestions on the related science topics. Introduction to Physical Geodesy. |
| Week 2: |
Gravity and its potential, spherical symmetric ground model and gravitational force, properties of gravitational potential, centrifugal force and its properties, gravity acceleration and gravity potential. |
| Week 3: |
Earth Gravity Field Physical Properties and Modeling: Laplace Differential equation, its solutions to the earth. Expressing with surface spherical harmonics, interpretation of harmonic coefficients. |
| Week 4: |
Expressing with surface spherical harmonics, interpretation of harmonic coefficients. |
| Week 5: |
Geometric Properties of Ground Gravity Field: Level surface, plumb line, representation of the local gravity field and curvature of the level surface, Natural Coordinates |
| Week 6: |
Geoid definition, mean sea level and dynamic ocean topography concepts,
Geoid as Height Reference Surface, temporal gravity field changes, gravity constant and earth rotation parameters, tidal acceleration and potential, tidal independent temporal changes. |
| Week 7: |
Earth Normal gravity field, "optimal ellipsoid" concepts, level ellipsoid normal gravity field, normal gravity field geometry, Geodetic Reference Systems, |
| Week 8: |
Measurement Methods, Gravimetry: Absolute gravity measurements, relative gravity measurements, Gravity Reference Systems, Gravity Gradiometry. |
| Week 9: |
Calculation of gravitational effects of topographic masses (topographic corrections and reductions) |
| Week 10: |
Midterm, Gravity Networks. |
| Week 11: |
Height Systems: Measurement Methods - Astrogeodetic Measurements Astrogeodetic reductions, Astrogeodetic geoid determination (Astrogeodetic leveling) |
| Week 12: |
Height determination approaches, geopotential number, dynamic heights, orthometric heights, ellipsoidal heights, normal heights, relations between altitude systems, country height datum and vertical control in our country. |
| Week 13: |
Modeling of the global gravity field: Spherical harmonic expressions, low and medium degree gravity field models, ultra-high degree expansion models |
| Week 14: |
Contribution of ground gravity field satellite missions (GOCE, GRACE, CHAMP) data to geoid models |
| Week 15*: |
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| Week 16*: |
Final Exam |
| Textbooks and materials: |
Heiskanen W.A., Moritz H., “Physical Geodesy”, WH Freeman San Fransisco,1967, 364 syf.
Torge W., “Geodesy” , Springer, 2001 |
| Recommended readings: |
Hofmann-Wellenhof B, Moritz H., “Physical Geodesy”, Springer, 2006. 403syf. |
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* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.
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